A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...